In my boyhood my passion was jigsaws, 500 to 750 pieces any more and they became a bit long winded. My father would often put match sticks or the old pennies and ask me to form them into different figures. My mother gave me her 'Bent wire and nail puzzles' which I still have today as well as a few more that I've collected over 50 years. I've wire, wooden, wood & string, moving, sliding and books etc. These are now packed in boxes and suit cases and it is a puzzle in its self to repack them.